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201st Squadron (P-40, Mexico)

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:59 pm
by el cid again
Mexico decided to send an "expeditionary air group" (a formal name for the
several elements of a single US squadron) to PTO in 1945. Only in action
briefly (stationed at the Clark AAB complex), it was remarkably successful.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_E ... _Air_Force

RE: 201st Squadron (P-40, Mexico)

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:05 am
by LargeSlowTarget

RE: 201st Squadron (P-40, Mexico)

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:12 am
by el cid again
Thanks

I decided to start it with P-47D25 (just out of production in Feb 45)
and upgrade to P-47E. It starts at San Francisco, its port of embarkation,
in a unit called FAEM/Escuadron 201 on 27 March 1945. It is under the
command of Col. Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez (1905–1969). It is assigned to
5th Air Force Command. It would be under V Fighter Command if there was
one, but there isn't. It actually formed part of the U.S. 58th Fighter Group.


RE: 201st Squadron (P-40, Mexico)

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:57 pm
by Blackhorse
ORIGINAL: el cid again
It is assigned to 5th Air Force Command. It would be under V Fighter Command if there was
one, but there isn't. It actually formed part of the U.S. 58th Fighter Group.

Excellent history. FWIW, the V Fighter Command is in the game. In stock it is unit 6784, starting as II Fighter Commander, changing name to V Fighter 4208.


RE: 201st Squadron (P-40, Mexico)

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 1:26 pm
by BillBrown
ORIGINAL: Blackhorse

ORIGINAL: el cid again
It is assigned to 5th Air Force Command. It would be under V Fighter Command if there was
one, but there isn't. It actually formed part of the U.S. 58th Fighter Group.

Excellent history. FWIW, the V Fighter Command is in the game. In stock it is unit 6784, starting as II Fighter Commander, changing name to V Fighter 4208.


The problem is that the name delay field is supposed to be a 6 digit entry. It seems that the II Fighter Command never changes it name. I have a game in February 1943 and it is still II fighter Command.